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Internet Webcasting

This is the next generation of the Internet- merging computers, modems and the broadcast industry. Many large and small radio and TV stations are hooking themselves to another delivery system- online. Although video is choppy and slow depending on your Internet speed and CPU (28.8k or higher and more than 100MHz CPU works, but 56k provides better delivery), faster computers will be able to deliver cleaner "real time video."

Soon, there will be a common Internet video streaming standard. There are several video and audio streaming products, like RealAudio and RealVideo, but competing products are making it necessary to have all the streaming programs installed on your computer to see and hear every site.

Besides mainstream radio and television stations hosting live and archived feeds online, the Internet is spawning a new generation of broadcasters and "webcams" programming solely for the Internet.

This page will be continuously updated as new links and information is discovered. While this new technology is still in its infancy, it does have a long way to go before people will choose to watch TV over their PC.

But, in the meantime, remember the days of searching for radio stations over the short wave? Well, here's today's version...

Eilat, Israel: Radi-Yo, the site link is http://www.radi-yo.co.il Live broadcasts goes on every evening (israeli time) with hope to extend them later on. In the rest of times we broadcasts music sequence with both local and international music. The broadcastd are accompanied by a chat that gives people from outside Israel to meet nick-to-nick with people from Israel.